If Sesame Street is so good, how come the U.S. government has to extort money from me to pay for it? (I have a prize waiting for the first person who can demonstrate the difference between extortion and taxation.) "PBS: It's so good, it can't compete for your money!"

Not only are Rich Eisen and Adam Shefter two of the smartest guys on TV, they give me the option of paying to watch them, or not. I pay them, and I do so happily.

Taidje Khan wrote:If Sesame Street is so good, how come the U.S. government has to extort money from me to pay for it? (I have a prize waiting for the first person who can demonstrate the difference between extortion and taxation.) "PBS: It's so good, it can't compete for your money!"

Now you have me curious about how funding works on Sesame Street. They can't need that much funding, I mean you can't throw a ball in a toy store without hitting Big Bird or that damn Elmo, not to mention books, video games, website...

Only thing I can figure is how advertising works with PBS might keep them from making money the way for-profit shows do.

I believe it's time for mankind to set aside the crutch of religion and embrace morality born of reason and truth. Those crutches have long since proven treacherous when the ground gets slippery.

Rainswept wrote:Now you have me curious about how funding works on Sesame Street. They can't need that much funding, I mean you can't throw a ball in a toy store without hitting Big Bird or that damn Elmo, not to mention books, video games, website...

Only thing I can figure is how advertising works with PBS might keep them from making money the way for-profit shows do.

Let's just say, I don't think the people who run PBS shop at Wal-Mart . . .

My absolute favorite South Park episode (even more than Wal-Mart) was 'Make Love, not Warcraft'.

I hope you're on the recieving end of an improbability equation wherein something happens to you that's as unlikely as Rob Schneider winning a best actor Oscar on the same day Michael Jackson single handedly captures Osama Bin Laden. ~ Rainswept

O.K. Everything else is just stuff you do while you are waiting to have sex. Sin. WoE. ~ Warlord of Elephants